I would have to disagree on that. I used to work at Best Buy for about a year and HD DVD is what we highly recommended, its cheaper and the quality is amazing.
Play Station was selling way overpriced consoles with about like six or a few more games that were not selling. We had people returning PS3's all the time because they were just unhappy with it. Just because it was released earlier doesn't mean that Play Station hasn't had enough time to attract more people to buy it or like it...They have been around way longer. I was never even interested in an XBOX until I saw the graphics and the games that were out. Not to mention Play Station cut its cost...I wonder why? It just wasn't selling. The games aren't selling and the only games that are, are for the Play Station 2. Its retarded. XBOX doesn't just release games for its older console it releases them for the 360. As for Blu Ray being better, I had customers and people that i worked with in Home theater recommend the HD DVD. 
What one particular store recommends doesn't have an impact on which is the better format. I'm the Electronics Department Team Lead at Target, and we push blu-ray.
http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/entertainment/other/blu-ray_winning_the_format_warIf you're interested, that article currently lies out the situation involving the blu-ray versus hd-dvd format war. *Shrugs*
And the 360 really isn't cheaper at all. If you buy the Xbox 360 Elite system, it costs 450 dollars. If you want a wireless network adapter for your system, you have to pay 100 dollars for an adapter. And an HD-DVD player for the 360 costs 180 dollars, bringing the total costs up to 680 dollars. You also have to pay a monthly fee to use Microsoft's online servers.
The PS3 is wireless ready, and comes with a blu-ray player all for just 600 dollars, and Sony provides free internet access with its servers and doesn't charge you. And it's all nicely packaged in one unit.
So it basically just boils down to which system you prefer, that's all. The fact that the PS3 hasn't even been out for a year is a legitimate reason as to why Sony hasn't been able to attract people to buying it, and want to know why? As I already said it's because of the software, once more games are released, which takes time, people will eventually buy it. 360 wasn't released with Halo 3, it was released with really lame games like King Kong.
Sony cut the costs of the 60 gig unit because they're introducing a new 80 gig unit for the regular price of 600 dollars, the price cut is just to help get rid of the old model, that's all.
And you're still seeing PS2 games being released because they were already in development from the begining to be made for that system before the PS3 was released. The PS2 is still the number one selling console anyway, it continues to beat the 360, Wii, and PS3 in sales. *Shrugs*
I really don't want to make this into a huge Sony vs. 360 argument, because we clearly have firm allegancies to each opposing side. lol
